A messaging app is giving developers some help in the crowded mobile game market.
Tango has signed six developers from around the world as the first part of its $25 million Global Games Fund, including Planeto from Sweden, Falafel Games from the Middle East, and Shiny Shoe Games (which created match-three puzzle games based on the films Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Mummy) from San Francisco. This gives those developers support, but it also gives Tango a piece of the $16 billion mobile market and visibility inside the messaging app, giving huge exposure to some of these smaller studios from across the world.
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Tango is a free messaging app with over 250 million registered users. It is a Top 100 free app on iTunes and a Top 50 free app on Android.